A Special Investigation Team has been formed by Delhi Police to probe the mysterious death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar after registering a murder case based on a medical report.
The hotel room, where former minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances on January 17, has been re-examined by police and forensic experts who claimed to have found some fresh evidence.
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah favoured Shashi Tharoor stepping down to protect the "honour" of the government and said the Kerala MP should have revealed his relationship with Sunanda Pushkar right from the beginning.
Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan has denied offering any role in the team to Dubai-based entrepreneur Sunanda Pushkar, who is at the centre of an ownership row involving the Kochi franchise.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, accused in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death, has told a Delhi court that he should be discharged as various investigations have been conducted by experts but they have not given a "definite opinion on the cause of death".
Describing Sunanda Pushkar's decision to give up her stake in Kochi Indian Premier League team as immaterial, Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh immediately sack Union Minister Shashi Tharoor as the matter was now of 'stinking corruption.'
The high court also expressed anguish that the Delhi Police has failed to complete the investigation and file a chargesheet in the three-and-a-half-year old case.
Sunanda Pushkar on Wednesday strongly denied media reports that she is acting as a proxy for Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor in the Kochi IPL franchise. She also came out strongly in support of Tharoor, who has come under fire from several quarters, following his spat with IPL commissioner Lalit Modi over the Kochi team.
Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, at the centre of a raging controversy involving Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, on Friday said she was "absolutely shocked" to learn of his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death.
Dr Sudhir Gupta has alleged a "tacit understanding" between the institute's director and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for making a "tailor made" post-mortem report on Sunanda Pushkar's death.
Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday sought a speedy inquiry for a "clear and definitive conclusion" as to the cause of death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar in the wake of reported claims by a senior forensic doctor that he was pressurised to manipulate the autopsy report in the case.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in the case.
Breaking his silence, former Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday rubbished claims of the head of AIIMS' forensic medicine department that he was pressured to manipulate the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar and questioned Sudhir Gupta's credibility, saying he can "shoot his mouth off anytime against anybody".
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was questioned by the Special Investigation Team on Thursday for the second time in the last four weeks on the Indian Premier League controversy as also various aspects leading to the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Shiv Menon was asked how the relationship was between Tharoor and Sunanda
Delhi Police has handed over the laptop and mobile phones of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar to Gandhinagar-based Directorate of Forensic Science, to retrieve crucial data, which could help the ongoing probe into her death.
The Delhi police on Thursday approached the high court challenging a trial court's 2021 order discharging Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case.
'From envy, heartburn and broken hearts to broken marriages, much damage has been done by unintended revelations in the social media. Suspicious partners bring out hidden relationships, which may never have come to light and hell breaks lose in many lives,' warns T P Sreenivasan.
Tharoor was charged under sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code by Delhi police, but was not arrested in the case.
The Delhi police probe into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union minister Shashi Tharoor, indicates that her husband had no prima facie role to play in it.
Delhi Police has served a notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, asking him to join the investigation into the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
In a new twist to the Sunanda Pushkar mysterious death case, one of her close friends on Wednesday claimed that she was taking 'fistful of medicines' and had fainted twice weeks before her death when he had hosted her and Shashi Tharoor at his Goa home.
Sunanda, who was not married to Tharoor then, had refuted allegations of any wrongdoing.
The application, which is likely to come up for hearing on June 8, said the tweets and Twitter timeline of Pushkar is of utmost importance in the case and as she is not alive, there is an apprehension that the account and the tweets may be deleted.
Tharoor said that he is more anxious to know the truth behind his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death.
Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has informed the Kerala High Court that he had not acquired any assets of his late wife Sunanda Pushkar either individually or jointly with her son or anybody else as her movable and immovable assets are not yet "ascertainable or estimable".
Six persons including three "prime witnesses" in the Sunanda Pushkar death case were put through lie detector test, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said on Monday amid indication that a number of other witnesses may be asked to undergo the examination.
A team of AIIMS doctors has submitted a fresh report to police on the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former Union minister Shashi Tharoor, maintaining that she died of poisoning.
The controversial claim by head of the forensic medicine department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences that pressure was brought upon him to manipulate the post mortem report on Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was debunked on Wednesday by the hospital in a new twist surrounding the mysterious death.
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi said that his client stands vindicated on the controversy surrounding the erstwhile Kochi franchise following outbursts by Shahshi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar who died recently.
Investigators probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar may move a local court in Delhi seeking lie detector test on her husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
There was no trace of alcohol in the body of Sunanda Pushkar though some evidence of presence of anti-depressant drug was likely, sources in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences said on Sunday.
Delhi Police, which has registered a case of murder in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, is planning to question Mehr Tarar, the Pakistani journalist over whom she fought with her husband Shashi Tharoor before her mysterious death last year.
In a typical Malayali wedding, former Union minister Shashi Tharoor wed Sunanda Pushkar at his ancestral home on Sunday.
The court reserved its order for Thursday.
A three-member team of senior doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences IN Mumbai on Saturday began post-mortem on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, even as the police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.
Tarar's questioning took place in February for over two hours.
The Crime Branch probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar will go for advanced forensic tests to determine cause of injuries on her body as it tries to unravel whether it was a case of suicide, homicide or accident.
Union minister Shashi Tharoor wrote a letter to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde offering his full cooperation in the probe into the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, saying he was "horrified to read the reckless speculation rampant" in the media.
The head of the AIIMS medical board based on whose report a murder case was registered into Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar's death, on Wednesday said the panel did not mention "homicide" in its findings and it found "poisoning" as the cause of her death.
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